The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-02
Alaska will be organized as a terri


Alaska will be organized as a terri
tory.
The name of Company Shops, N. c.,
has been changed to Burlington.
If you want q powerful preacher,
quit talking about him and goto pray
ing for him.
Luther Benson is again in Texas
lecturing to packed houses. Temper
ance is moving up. ... . -
Both houses of the Nevada Legisla-
ture have adopted resolutions dis
franchising Mormons in that State.
Things that are exceptional cannot
be depended upon. For>steady illum-
ination lamp is better than rocket
According to the Austrian consul at
Yokohama, the earthquakes of Japan
destroy city every seven years OLE
the average.
The President of the United States
is asked to act as an arbitrator between
Costa Rica and Nicaragua on the
boundary question.
No rains have fallen in Crawford
County, Kansas, for sixteen months,
it is stated, and water sells there for
forty cents a barrel.
They who form companionships at
the summer watering-places of Amer
lea 60 into lottery where there are
twenty blanks to one prize.
England has shown herself dispOs-
ed to yield to wise counsels, in an,
nouncing her intention of reducing,
her forces in Egypt to 1900 men.
From the Eranainer.-The best
writer's are very sparing in the use of
Authorizations. So are carefully edited
newspapers and well-printed books.
Cotton and buildings at the Amer
lean cotton docks, Staten Island, n.
Y, estimated to be worth $3.50, ,000r
were burned, Feb. Is. The fire orig
mated by lightning.
The Providence Star says: "The eX-
perience of the past three months in
Rhode Island has proved that pro-
hibitiOn law can he better enforced
than license law"
Rev. Prof. A. Coke Smith Of Spar
tanburg preached. in the Methodist
Church Of this City on Sunday last,
both morning and evening.-Enter-
prise and Mountaincer.
The American watering-places are
responsible for more domestic infelici-
ties in this country than all other
things combined. Society is so arti-
fetal there that no sure judgment Of
character can be found.
The Legislature of Alabama has:
passed a bill making gambling IL
felony-the first offense to be punish
ed by not less than six months i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary, and
the second oflense six years.
Henry George recently said q good
thing: ,"The laboring classes cannot
accomplish any thing by violence un-
til they know what they want, aud
when they know what they want,
they can accomplish it without vio-
lence.n
In Liverpool, England, last year,
there were 1000 Protcstants and 13, 600
Romanists committed to prison for
The Romanists are,
much less than half the population,.
though furnishing nearly two-thirds.
of the crime.
All lIlslG
the average age Of the members of the
Society of Friends who have died dur
ing the denominational year just com-
pleted was fifty-eight and half years.
an average are much in excess of that
among the general population.
BEAUTIFUL ENGRAvINGS. - All
pictures of battles are hideous to every
person Of a refined moral, or intelIcc-
Iual taste. The great American pain
ter, Washington Allston, would never
paint a battle scene. No father or
mother, and especially if they ire
should ever allow apicturc
If human slaughter in glazed frame
Dr. in book in their houses.
President Cleveland came out in Il
message calm, strong and true in fl-
'or Of permanent provision on the
part Of the Government for arbitra-
ion. What he so we'll said in favor
,f its dignity, permanency and emf
lent moral force cannot be successful
Y eOntroverted. 1t is the restatcmcHt
If the Peace argument familiar to alE
,ur papers and platforms-the success
'ul practice of the Society of Friends
or POO years. Arbitration has thus
LINED to high place and found ale-
Iuate and influential utterance.